The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
--sopchoppy Is the name Of a Florida

AsAhs 10y hOSOHpiy t''e''A'S>.
Week in Minneapolis. He probably
went on the theory that week was
worth more than day. Chicago Jour.
nal
--vagrant--"Why are you here In
the dockp" Sharper-"For raising
check. Why are you herep" vagrant
--"Because I couldn't raise one."--
Boston Budget. tfJre .etz ettrers
The Inconvenience OF having two
wives, both living and looking for
blood, has caused Texas editor to
evaporate to South America. Arkansas
Gazette.
If Jim jenkins don't stop shooting
our windows out there'll be trouble;
this is no rented house, and the win
dows cost money. If he wants to shoot I
at us he must come inside. .--Ha'oesritc
(Ky.) Plaindealer.
AT st. Augustine, Fla, q few days
since A. M. Lopez, while at work tear
ing down Misson's building on st.
George street. found an old-fashioned
pistol imbedded in the walls. 1t is Of
queer design and undo ubtedly Of great
age.
The house in which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
Run, Pa, is nearly cut to pieces by
relic hunters, and one of them has the
shoes taken from Colby after the muir
der on exhibition in his store at Lock
Haven.
The Pan Yam mine near Helena,
M. T., is one of the richest of recent
strikes in the Territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan, a Ia
borer. During the last two weeks in
August $12, 900 worth of ore was taken
out OF the mine. M ifl
IN. H. Wilson, of Merced, CAL, has
just received some Egyptian wheat
8, 900 years old, which was found in the
coffin of an Egyptian prince. while un-
rolling the mummy. Prof. Gilden. Of
Boston, brought the wheat to the United
States in 1850. :
Omaha Dame (resding) - ''The
King has just begun q suit for divorce
against his wife" Chicago Dame
II didn't hear the first part. What
Kingp'' "The King Of the Society
| lSldUuSs ~, L O1tCu WOHuCIcV WHY
they were called Society Islands. -
Omaha World.
The three-year-old son of Michael
Curron. of Susquehanna, N. Y, was
seized with convulsions and n doctor
was called. Suspecting that the boy
had been overeating, the doctor gave
him an emetic and soon after the child
elected live lizard two and half
inches long. The boy is now all right.
For some time it was thought
ghost had taken up its abode in Frey's
mine, near Brownsville. Pa, and timor-
GUS miners gave its quarters q wide
berth. II was discovered that bull
calf with long chain on its neck had
wandered in there to get away from the
flies and was unable to find its way out.
Omaha Invalid-"O, dear, so the
doctor has sent me some more pills"
Husband-"Pillsp" Eyes; didn't he
tell you what they werep I'm sure by,
their looks they are blue mass pills, too.
But how big they are" "Great Escu-
lapius! Are you talking about the con-
tents of that box! sent you that my
self. They are not pills, they are new
peaches, Omaha World.
Sharks are accused of causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the waters
hcreabout this summer. They are un-
usually numerous and bold, and may
be seen any day swimming about on
the flats. exploring the water-grass with
their blunt noses. They go into the
coves that are shedding-places of crabs
and destroy all the soft ones they can
fnd.-Baltimore Sun.
:. The gathering of hundreds of B-mar-
tins in and around the public squares
every day at Martinsville. Henry
County, Va, has excited no little Curl
osity lately. An examination has dis
closed the fact that they were making
deliberate and apparently systematic
war upon the English sparrows, the
victory invariably remaining with the
martins. They have now. it is said.
literally whipped the sparrows out OF
: the place.
The subject of spiders is an eA-
tremely interesting one, and may be
followed with much profit in the way Of
| amusing information. One of the curl
Gus points is the difference in the sexes.
Van Hnsselt has made tho amusing
calculation that if the same difference
in size existed between man and woman
: as we find in the sexes of spiders a man
six feet high and weighing l50 pounds
could not find partner less than sew
enty-five feet in height or weighing less
than two hundred thousand pounds.
Mr.. Eric Bruce, who has worked
: out the idea of signaling at night by q
captive balloon lighted inside by elec-
: trio incandescent lamps, has just com.
pleted one for the Belgian government.
Mr.. Bruce's latest ballon is fifteen feet
!, in diameter and 1900 cubic feet in
capacity. 1t is made of vanished
cambria, and is, translucent. Six Edi'
son and Swan lamps of eight to ten
candle-power are mounted inside, and
: the current is supplied by an E. P. s
accumulation Of twenty-five cells Of the
y eleven s type in teak-boxes.
When the Emperor Charles v. o.
1 Spain retired to the monastery of St
= Yuste he took with him Torriano. III
: clockmaker, in order to while away
9 the time by constructing the movementl
y of clocks. So wonderful were some O.